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1. 661.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   As a digital nomad I live my life in AirBnBs (with the exception of the occasional hotel and housesit). Over the last 2 years I have stayed in ~20-30 AirBnBs in Asia and Europe (we were going to do the Americas this year...alas). Without Ai
2. 662.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   1. Rupert Murdoch 2. True 3. We should pay Rupert Murdoch more money to take care of this.
3. 663.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   Danger mouse
4. 664.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   I read that comment too, and went -> Free books from the library. Free drawing at the community centre. Free bikes on craigslist/gumtree. Granted someone is paying for this, or I have already paid for it out of my taxes, but the lis
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   by vertis 6y ago

   I love some of the Dropbox features, but the thing that annoys me EVERY time I log into their website is that it wants to try and shove team plans in front of me. I actually logged in just before posting to check if it was still there and y
6. 666.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   I have to agree with my sibling post. I seek out narrators like Wil Wheaton, Ray Porter and Luke Daniels. I will often look at the other work that a narrator has done in the hopes that it will be worth considering. There are also excellent
7. 667.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   Yes it does, because they can compel the company employees. A previous company that I worked for used to have data centres in Amsterdam and Sydney (pre-cloud), but it was an Australian company with Australian engineers, so it wouldn't
8. 668.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   I'm an outsider, but when I look at the US market there seem to be really cheap houses away from the major cities. Far cheaper than Australia. For example: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Rocheste
9. 669.▲
   by vertis 6y ago

   I like fastmail, but the Australian Government has anti-encryption laws that are just a dealbreaker. Australian companies (of which Fastmail is one) can be forced to handover user data silently[1]. "At its core, the legislation allows
10. 670.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I can't remember now, and there is a chance that it was the emails that were problematic. The behaviour of the import/export tool was just unforgivable though. It wouldn't handle the emails it couldn't import gracefully
11. 671.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I stand corrected on this.
12. 672.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I've lost my cool at them a couple times. Then you walk around feeling shitty for the next hour because they're usually poor and/or migrants and probably aren't doing it for fun. There is another scam I've seen in A
13. 673.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I tried really hard to move to protonmail and detach from a Google ecosystem, but really struggled to import my existing emails (their import/export tool was incredibly prone to breaking). You're also locking yourself into an ecos
14. 674.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I enjoyed the Aladdin stage play, though TBH it's not my favourite play I've been to in recent years. Would settle for any play right now.
15. 675.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    These are all good examples. Lord of the Rings is an interesting example because it's such a different medium. I guess for me it's not so much the remaking even as Disney remaking it's own properties. I like the BBC pride and
16. 676.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Did we need a live-action version of Mulan? What was wrong with the animated version (that is better in the live version)? Edit: I might even have been excited about a new version of Mulan if not for the controversies surrounding it. It is
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    by vertis 6y ago

    As much as I find Firefox less than user friendly at times (by comparison), it is worlds better when it comes to blocking unwanted items and putting the user first (For example Multi-account containers). I really wish that Chrome wasn'
18. 678.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I got a notice on Aug 15 (that I missed). My very old SlideShare account was listed as being in Australia.
19. 679.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I remember most of interactions with scribd circa 209-2010 being annoyance that whatever I was looking for was on scribd, but these are only the vaguest of memories. In the recent past I can't remember actually visiting.
20. 680.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Tangent. I had a Minidisc player for a while circa 1997 (bit hazy). It was so awesome. I spent a lot of time putting tracks on the minidiscs. I always wanted to be able to use it with a computer to store files as well, alas that required a
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    by vertis 6y ago

    I stopped using PayPal because they won't let me add a UK debit card to my Australian PayPal account. Have now been using Transferwise for a couple of years and can highly attest that it's the way things should be for an internati
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    by vertis 6y ago

    It's nowhere near that simple though. CO2 is one big contributor, but not the only one. Methane is also a big contributor[1], and things like beef production are a big part of increased Methane emissions (by no means the only source).
23. 683.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Without being an expert... Shotguns, firing a net, anti-drone drones and also interfering with signals are all on the table.
24. 684.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    I don't even remember that from 'The Player of Games', perhaps I need to re-read.
25. 685.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Presumably the method for measuring vitamin-c is well established. I like that their conclusion is 'more information needed' rather than 'deploy all the vitamin-c'. It seems to warrant further study, even if the amount t
26. 686.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, as I think the parent was as well. Americans do tend to run around quoting their first amendment rights like the whole world has them. As you say, it's strictly a US government thing. While Austral
27. 687.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Or another trick, just place it in another country and then you don't have to worry about the 1st amendment at all, and no I'm not talking about China. UK or Australia will do just fine.
28. 688.▲
    by vertis 6y ago

    Agreed, Australia and NZ are doing aggressive manual contact tracing (in addition to the app that was released in Australia in April). Last I checked NZ had managed to link all but two of the cases back to the one source. Victoria (AU) like
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    by vertis 6y ago

    Thankfully, the US isn't the only country in the world, and large chunks of the world have socialized medicine.
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    by vertis 6y ago

    From my very very limited understanding isn't the adenovirus just a delivery mechanism? Is there a dependency on ad26 that would mean nothing else could be the delivery mechanism?